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There was no lighting, nothing. It was absolutely scary. You know, I remember going in and walking around and you, there's no air in there anyway, but then you're thinking it's dark, no air, you're going into somewhere, you don't know what to expect.

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Last year I was given the unique opportunity to visit the Nottingham Warrooms.

The site is about to be redeveloped so it's a rare chance to see a British regional seat of government bunker that had lain relatively untouched since the end of the Cold War.

The voices you will hear are Dan Caudell, an expert on nuclear culture and history, and

Parmi Uphal, estates manager for Holmes, England.

Don't miss the videos and photos in the episode information to get a real feel for what

I saw and experienced.

I'm delighted to welcome Dan and Parmi to our Cold War

conversation. This started for me about 11 months ago when I got an email and I work on nuclear

literature, nuclear culture, and that means I sometimes get some slightly strange emails from people I don't know.

And this seemed to be one of them at first.

And he said, we've bought a nuclear bunker. Would you be interested?

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